This week we have our featured pieces, then a round up on blogging, the brain, mental health, video games, and anthropology. Ah, the electric eclectic.
Top of the List
My Mind on Books, ‘Supersizing the Mind’ by Andy Clark
My Mind on Books features the just released Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension. Andy Clark’s earlier book Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again was foundational in the development of my thinking during grad school, so I am really looking forward to Clark’s latest.
Maximilian Forte, Anthropology’s Many Deaths and the Birth of World Anthropologies
A critical examination of North American anthropology and the emerging world of global anthropologies
Edge, A Short Course in Behavioral Economics
A “master class” from some of the best in the field under the guidance of Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman
Neurophilosophy, Memories Are Made of Molecular Motors
Long-term potentiation and receptor trafficking, with a close examination of myosin Vb
The Inoculated Mind, No More Pipetting Late at Night
Very funny video-mercial for a new pipetting machine. Now this is marketing!
Blogging
Technorati, State of the Blogosphere 2008-10-29
The blog search engine and source of blogging info provides its yearly take on all things blogging
Antropologi, George Marcus: “Journals? Who cares?”
Do journals still matter? Or new forms of publishing? And the esteemed George Marcus actually gives a lengthy comment!
Neuroanthropology 